Infection Control for Support Workers

This training provides support workers with the knowledge and skills to protect themselves and their participants from infectious diseases in accordance with organisational infection control procedures.

Support workers will learn about safe work practices including the use of personal hygiene practices and equipment, management of a needle stick injury, management of blood and body fluid spills and the safe disposal of syringes and contaminated waste.

Face-to-Face Mode Only:

• Demonstrate effective hand washing technique


• Describe how to manage contaminated waste, clean and disinfect contaminated surfaces


• Manage a minor blood spill


• Manage a needle stick injury

3 hours and 15 minutes live online training and knowledge assessment
3 hours face-to-face training and knowledge assessment

Infection Control for Support Workers: Live Online Training and Knowledge Assessment
Infection Control for Support Workers : Face-to-Face Training and Knowledge Assessment

1 year

We select our Premium Health trainers and assessors carefully. All are nurses or paramedics with appropriate qualifications, technical expertise and experience in the health care, emergency first aid and education sectors. This enables them to provide you with quality training which is grounded in experience and knowledge of the field.

Some of the topics include:

• how to maintain personal hygiene


• infection prevention and control


• infectious agents and their modes of transmission


• hand hygiene and effective hand washing technique


• standard and transmission based infection control precautions


• practices that prevent transmission of infection


• infection risks including management of blood spills and needle stick injuries